Analyze This: Wrapping Up the Year in Gaming

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As the year 2006 winds down, the analysts take time to reflect and look back at how the industry fared this year...

"Sony promised nothing (yes, they screwed up the quantities, but did not suggest that retailers advertise or take [PS3] pre-orders); consumers expected nothing,"

Sony give promisses constantly they can't deliver on... Not only about the quantities they would have these holidays (6 million was it, then 4, then 2, then 500k and it became something like half of that). Also about launch dates, first spring 2006 world wide, then holidays 2006 world wide, now Europe even delayed untill spring 2007 (A WHOLE FREAKING YEAR TOO LATE)

Sony promised nothing, consumers expected nothing right? They expected everything but got nothing as expected. The games cross-platform are better on the 360, the 360 has the best and most exclusives and this years hit Gears of War. The Wii does motion sensing right, the PS3 is having kiddy play motion sensing...

and have u read the article "I think Microsoft over-promised on the 360, led a lot of consumers to believe that there would be millions at launch, and these consumers stopped buying anything (through March) while waiting for their Xbox 360s to arrive." now where is this from sorry guys not bashing 360 but i hate ppl when they write same old sh*t again and again....its almost 1 year reading some best of the best comments and BRAINS of fanboys. And tell u the truth MART has won all of them.

I think the 360 and more so the PS3 were over hyped at launch. One thing that everyone said in common though that I have to agree with is that around the same time next year, the picture will relatively even for all the consules, except for the Wii as there is a possability that some will view it as a novality rather than a legit system.